Here are some photos (that we never got around to posting) of Katy Perry performing at the America Forward event in October. As you can see, she’s wearing one of her infamous rubber dresses that always make me feel terribly uncomfortable. It’s not the revealing, hugging nature of these dresses themselves that make me cringe, but I just imagine that she must be boiling underneath because her skin can’t breathe. It just can’t be healthy, and Katy probably peels these things off as soon as possible. Or maybe she likes it. Kinky.

Anyway, I’ve always thought that Katy was fortunate enough (or must literally work her ass off) to have the body to wear these outfits in the first place. Not so much, as Katy revealed the other night on the red carpet of the Snowflake Ball. Katy was wearing this semi-transparent dress, which prevented her from indulging in her favorite accessory, Spanx. Then she started talking about how fat she felt at that very moment. It seems like an odd thing to talk about to a journo, right?

Katy Perry has been called “The First Lady of Hot” by Maxim, but she doesn’t always feel worthy of the title.

Us Weekly caught up with the “Part of Me” singer at the Nov. 28 UNICEF Snowflake Ball in New York City, where she and other celebs including Selena Gomez, Uma Thurman, Tony Bennett and Kelly Ripa walked the blue carpet and helped raise money for UNICEF’S lifesaving children’s programs.

The pop star, 28, was stunning in a tight, floor-length, semi-sheer navy Naeem Khan dress with a matching cape, Guiseppi Zanotti heels, a Judith Leiber clutch, and Lorraine Schwartz jewels — but she admitted she didn’t feel as good as others thought she looked.

“I feel like my [fat] is sticking out so bad right now,” she confided in Us at the bash. “I almost always wear [Spanx], but not tonight, and I feel it pushing out, making me look fat.”

“I like to say I run on the elliptical for 30 minutes watching CNN, but I don’t do it often enough,” she added. “So I’m just like, ‘Oh, I guess I’m not fitting into this Lanvin dress for these couple of months.’”

Perry may not always love her curves, but plenty of other people do — including on-again boyfriend John Mayer, who recently accompanied the singer on a romantic tour of the Old Mission in her hometown of Santa Barbara, Calif. The two have also been spotted packing on the PDA at several Hollywood hot spots.

“They were in their own world,” a guest at Perry’s October birthday bash told Us of the couple, who reunited in September after briefly separating in August. “She didn’t even talk to her friends much. It was just her and John. She’s obsessed with him.”

Even though Katy generally irritates me, I have to admit that it’s refreshing for her to admit to having a little hidden wardrobe help … although she does sort of excuse herself by admitting she’s sometimes too lazy to exercise. Here’s what I want from a celebrity — someone who will admit that they work out all the time and still have some problem areas. Because that’s something that happens in the real world. Even though I run anywhere between 25-30 miles per week (on the treadmill and outside), keep a relatively healthy diet, and am at a target weight, there’s still that sneaky thigh cellulite problem. So yeah, I appreciate that Katy is acknowledging getting some help from Spanx. Does this make me like her just a little bit more? Maybe.

I have a pair that go from mid thigh to my bust for when I’m wearing clingier dresses. I think it’s all in getting the sizing right. And I think some celebs actually double up on them. But, you have to watch because if you get the sizing wrong, it can cause the extra weight to spill out of them and cause more ridges.

I have to say, I like the result of mine. I’m not going for being smaller, so much as smoother looking.

My kids made me watch the Katy Perry “Part of Me” movie, and now…. argh! I can’t help kind of liking her!! She seems genuinely nice! Her voice is kind of awesome! She really did build her career herself! Ack!

That’s still impressive, compared to me, at least. I take my son to the gym everyday yet only set foot in it if I need to run in to pee.
I think Katy looks better w/ dark hair; yes, a bit like a young Demi, but she annoys me.

I don’t care what kind of underpants she or anyone else wears. I loathe this ‘movement’ of sharing intimate details being seen as empowering. I don’t care about your underwear, your pregnancy tests, your body functions, your pube preferences, etc…..

I thought it was common knowledge that everyone in Hollywood wears Spanx all the time, unless it can be seen beneath the outfit, like in the case of a transparent dress. I’m pretty sure that’s why she said it, she wasn’t “admitting” anything, it’s status quo.

No. She is still a liar about her rack being real. It’s not, and there’s plenty of YouTube and other evidence that it’s fake. “The rack is real” my ass. It’s a very good boob-job, mind you, but it’s a job for sure.

No, it won’t Nothing will make me like her fake infantile persona, her awful autotuned studio created drivel, that her “edginess” attempted is a joke as she is a corporate suck up big time (check out a WSJ article from a few months ago), and the fact that she has almost no talent and her intellect makes a parakeet look like Stephen Hawking (have you watched her closely in interviews?), she’s a joke all the way around; great marketing though. I guess i haven’t had enough coffee this morning.

the way I’m reading it, I feel bad for KP: she clearly looks awesome w/o the spanx but seems obsessed with fat that isn’t there…it sounds like the exact same thing my (very thin) friend who has struggled with body image her whole life would say and that’s hard to watch

The only thing that’ll make me like her more (or at all, really) is if she becomes a hermit. This article actually makes me like her less, because I’m so tired of skinny girls saying they feel/look fat just so someone can tell them that they’re crazy. This chick KNOWS she isn’t fat; she’s just fishing for compliments.

I never liked Katy Perry but then I watched her documentary. I recommend it. It shows her as more human and the pieces where it shows her relationship falling apart is very sad – it is awful watching her heart break, times which it did’t seem like she even knew the camera was there. It made me see her as more of a real person and I like her better for it. And it really seems like he did her wrong.

Same here, behead! That’s the amount I run (treadmill hills) and I def still have some cellulite and a little extra belly fat. It sucks! I have to eat perfectly to slim down more, and I just can’t give up everything!